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Thanks for visiting this site everyone! According to World View, there are currently 195 countries on this planet & according to my analytics 143 countries visited Solarey.net. This site seems to peek some interest in people & most nations. To get this many views in less than a week from all over the world is great to […]

Queen Ati, wife of King Perahu of Punt, depicted on Pharaoh Hatshepsut’s temple at Deir el-Bahri. Somalia is among the most probable locations of the fabled ancient Land of Punt. Ancient pyramidical structures, mausoleums, ruined cities and stone walls, such as the Wargaade Wall, are evidence of an old civilization that once thrived in the […]

List In Random Order 1- English 2- French 3- Arabic 4- Swahili 5- Portuguese 6- Spanish 7- Hausa 8- Oromo 9- Yoruba 10- Igbo 11- Amharic 12- Zulu As the world develops, certain languages will die out while others will thrive. So which languages will dominate in the future? The most-populated nations in the world in 2050. Top 5 Useful & […]

Have fun searching for it on Google Earth! Located at 20 ° 26 ‘.8.15 “S latitude and 57 ° 39’2. 60” E longitude these pyramids fascinate! What is immediately striking is that the stones are washed and arranged exactly as in Tenerife, ( Canary Islands) in other words, without mortar. Like the pyramids of Tenerife, […]

9 pyramids in Tenerife and 2 pyramids on La Palma 6 lava stone step pyramids in Güimar/Tenerife 3 lava stone step pyramids in Icod, Sta.Barbara, La Mancha/Tenerife. The Canary Islands have been known since antiquity. Until the Spanish colonization between 1402 and 1496, the Canaries were populated by an indigenous population called the Guanches, whose […]

Nationality: American Ethnicity: African descent. She has gray-green eyes. I would like to see this young woman more often in the fashion and acting world. This photo above is just captivating and I had to share it with the rest of you. View her photos and videos below. From The Ground Up VFILES | Devan Nykole […]

The pyramid was found in an area of the mid-Atlantic that has been estimated to be underwater for about 20,000 years. Reports from the Portugese American Journal claim archeologists from the Portuguese Association of Archaeological Research (APIA) have found archaeological evidence on Pico island supporting the notion that human occupation of the Azores predates the arrival […]

Mummification knowledge at 5,600 years old, this pre-dates Ancient Egyptian Civilization… Wan Muhuggiag (Muhjaij) Mummy, Tashwinat, Libya The Tashwinat Mummy of a child found in Wan Muhuggiag (or Uan Mughjaj), Tadrart Acacus, Fezzan, southern Libya, by Professor Mori in 1958. The mummy was thought to be at least 5400 years old and therefore it is […]

Natural or Man Made? Yeha is described as “a large Bronze Age archaeological site and the most impressive site in the Horn of Africa showing evidence of contact with South Arabia. There are roads leading to a building constructed as far back as the 7th century BC. Yeha is one of Ethiopia’s major cities in the Tigrai […]

This mountaintop fortress was built from 1805 to 1820 in the aftermath of the slave revolution of Haiti (Bt 1791–1804) by African descendants and declaration of its independence from France. It was designed as a part of fortification system, which was supposed to defend newly independent Haiti from the attacks of the French Army. This massive […]

What was left out of your history books. Panoramic view of Sans Souci Palace, Milot, Haiti. This castle/palace was built by Haitians who are mostly of African descent. I bet you didn’t know this is on the UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE. This is currently a tourist attraction. Globe trotters seem to know about this stuff and are not […]

One overlooked fact is that Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt, in places like Nuri and Bijrawiyah, though they are smaller and not as old. Meroe was often ruled by queens, known by the title “kandake,” and boasts scores of pyramids similar in shape to the one exhibited on a one-dollar bill. “I discovered a […]

In Southern Africa, there are 11 official languages spoken currently. The term Coloureds (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners in Afrikaans) is an ethnic label for people of mixed ethnic origin who possess ancestry from Europe, Asia, and various Khoisan and Bantu tribes of Southern Africa. Besides the extensive combining of these diverse […]

Tassili n’Ajjer is a vast plateau in south-east Algeria at the borders of Libya, Niger and Mali, covering an area of 72,000 sq. km. The exceptional density of paintings and engravings, and the presence of many prehistoric vestiges, are remarkable testimonies to Prehistory. From 10,000 BC to the first centuries of our era, successive peoples left […]

I bet you didn’t know we have castles in Africa too! Unfortunately this wasn’t considered important enough to put in our standard beginners history books, but guess what !? Better late then never right? 🙂 Don’t believe me? You can find it on Google Earth! Click on the World Heritage site below. Gondar or Gonder […]

The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion is the most important church in Ethiopia, and claims to contain the Ark of the Covenant. It is located in the town of Axum in the Tigray Province. The original church is believed to have been built during the reign of Ezana, the first Christian emperor of […]

The enormous obelisks in Aksum, Ethiopia are much bigger than the famous obelisks in Egypt. The city of Aksum emerged several centuries before the birth of Christ, as the capital of a state that traded with ancient Greece, Egypt and Asia. With its fleets sailing as far afield as Ceylon, Aksum later became the most […]

The Church of St. George is one of eleven monolithic churches in Lalibela, a city in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Originally named Roha or Warwar, this historical and religious site is currently accepted in the modern name of Lalibela, after King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of Ethiopia, who is regarded as a saint-like figure by […]

Many people daydream about traveling the world, but all of them have the same excuse – lack of money. Tomislav, after traveling the world for years with almost no money, shows how it is possible for everyone to do the same, if they really want to. Tomislav Perko, 29, is a travel writer from […]

Tanzanite; 1,000 times rarer than diamonds. Tanzanite is the blue/violet variety of the mineral zoisite (a calcium aluminium hydroxyl Sorosilicate) belonging to the epidote group. It was discovered in the Mererani Hills of Manyara Region in Northern Tanzania in 1967, near the city of Arusha and Mount Kilimanjaro. Tanzanite is used as a gemstone, and […]

One of the Wonderstone (Ottosdal or Klerksdorp) spheres. In the Wonderstone Mines at Ottosdal (West Transvaal, South Africa), hundreds of metallic spheres have been found over several decades in pyrophillite (or wonderstone) deposits of Precambrian date, some 2.8 billion years old. Pyrophillite is a metamorphosed sedimentary mineral mined for use in masonry buildings, as an […]

Nationality: American Ethnicity: (Eritrea) African Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. With its capital at Asmara, it is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. Click on fashion video below to view https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t50.2886-16/10953601_1534127996843570_1157019288_n.mp4 […]

At 17,000 years, this unusual Nomoli figure is also the oldest. A small metal ball was hidden in a hollow space inside it. An analysis showed that it is made from chrome and steel. However, the metal ball was already in the figure when it was found. How did it get there? And much […]

The Controversy around this rock called the Sky stone (12000 BC) ~ was found In 1990, an odd type of blue stone, was discovered by geologist and archaeologist, Angelo Pitoni, in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He sent the mysterious stone to be investigated at several laboratories around the world. The tests were carried out in laboratories […]

Some say it’s artificial and others think it’s a natural formation. Judge for your self. I have seen websites and blogs on this subject from Russia, Asia and Latin America analyzing “The Lady Of Mali”. This is now a current tourist destination or for self proclaimed Indiana Jones types looking for adventure and the discovery of […]

Nationality: Ukrainian Ethnicity: Unknown She speaks Russian and English. Tina Sokol is part of a Ukrainian girl group called Montana. Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. Ukrainian flag below Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of […]

The British West Indies were the islands and mainland colonies in and around the Caribbean that were part of the British Empire. The Netherlands Antilles, also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The term French West Indies or French Antilles refers to […]

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ARE descendents of the first people to leave Africa up to 75,000 years ago, a genetic study has found, confirming they may have the oldest continuous culture on the planet. DNA confirms Aboriginal culture one of Earth’s oldest … Australia celebrates “National Sorry Day,” as a way to make amends for the historical persecution of […]